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jury duty

mood: accomplished

music: Christine Andreas -- Will He Like Me?

I have performed my civic duty: I went in for jury duty this morning at 8 a.m., armed with my homework, two research papers to read, a bottle of water, a bottle of hand cream, and a generously-packed lunchbox.

It was a good experience: they kept us informed of what was going on the whole time, bringing a judge in to explain the delay in impaneling us, and having us watch a badly-degraded videotape on the whole process, the content of which was probably made in the 1980s.

I did several homework problems while listening to inane television shows in the background (Regis & Kelly), and was faintly disturbed by the fact that the majority of the jurors had not even brought a book. They sat like doped sheep in front of the TV for two hours. (Except for one break where the jurors were able to go across the street to Dunkin' Donuts and most came back with coffee.)

They sent us all home just before 10 a.m. I am all set for another three years. :)

Comments

You forgot to mention the butter knife they took away from you when you entered the courthouse. I'm glad to know that our courthouses are being protected from the butter knife wielding population of America.

Yes, thank you for reminding me. When the security guard asked me to please remove the knife from my bag, for one second I went into panic mode (a la that lovely and perfectly nonsensical "has anyone put something in your luggage without your knowledge?" question that they ask at airports), and thought, "KNIFE?! THERE'S A KNIFE--oh. Right. I put one in there for spreading hummus on sandwich makings..." and I removed it for her. They gave it back to me on the way out of the courthouse.

Thank heavens they did not try to take my BRA away from me when it set off the metal detector in the courthouse. Mild embarassment when you walk into Passaic County Superior Court with two of your bosses and two co-workers (the two co-workers and I were invited to watch the trial proceedings of a case we had worked on extensively) and your UNDERWEAR sets off the metal detector!!!